What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

Shot out to Harcourt with my boys Sunday - great day. Fitness and skill let me down, but had a good ride. Got to the bottom of track 2 and heard the distinctive call of a child who binned it. Got a couple of turns into track one and found said kid (Not mine), 3 youngsters like 6-10 years old out for a ride, the little girl had face-planted something and blood was pissing out. Grabbed her bike and walked her over to the access road and rode with her back to Dad waiting in the carpark. Good deed done did one more lap of track 6 and I was cooked.
 
DougalStrachan said:
Shot out to Harcourt with my boys Sunday - great day. Fitness and skill let me down, but had a good ride. Got to the bottom of track 2 and heard the distinctive call of a child who binned it. Got a couple of turns into track one and found said kid (Not mine), 3 youngsters like 6-10 years old out for a ride, the little girl had face-planted something and blood was pissing out. Grabbed her bike and walked her over to the access road and rode with her back to Dad waiting in the carpark. Good deed done did one more lap of track 6 and I was cooked.
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Good on you for helping the kid out.
Sunday was a beautiful day for a ride.

I went for a ride in Creswick on Saturday, it was fairly humid but damn it was fun. There is so much to explore.
Today I'm building a bike for a friend's son. I thought I'd make it tubeless so the kid can run lower pressure. I hate taping rims. But it's done now.
 
Seems like I'm spending more time buying things than riding but today I bought -
  1. Giro Source helmet
  2. S-Works Pathfinder Pro tyres
  3. Giro HRC+ merino wool socks
The Pathfinders were buy one get one free. With none left in stock on the big-S site, I found a shop that is running BOGO - worked out to be $50 each inc delivery which is a nice saving! The WTB Raddlers I have are apparently shithouse when set up tubeless so I'll put the S-Works on and see how they go. The socks were a cheeky add-on :)
 
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ashes_mtb said:
One minute you’re reaching out to your Rotorburn community chasing a cheap shock for your bike, next thing you know Rotorburn goes down and you receive an email confirming you’ve purchased a new DVO shock 😳
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Oooooooh spicy!
 
Trailing the new seat on the HT similar style to the one below. I haven't ridden one with such a.... pronounced channel before. I had the nose of the seat a bit high - I feel if I had have sheared sideways I would have been able to start a new career guarding the closest harem.

Anyway will give it a bit more of a run after dropping the nose a tad.


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Went out for a ride this morning and did Pipeline.

I struggled badly, I've spent the past week eating shite, playing Playstation and staying up late and I could feel the effects of that during the ride.

Time to get back on the gravel bike and build those base km back up!
 
ozzybmx said:
Unless you are sprinting, flattish gravel or tarmac does nothing but toughen your ass.

Getting up and down that trail a couple of times a week will be far better for fitness and skill.
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For climbing? Sure!

Skill? Yeah definitely.

But for muscle endurance? Base km is where it's at according to the countless coaches and sports scientists that talk about zone two training.

Also I came away from my charity ride with far more than a toughened ass! Sadly I didn't maintain it so my fitness has declined accordingly.
 
After work ride last night. Missus dropped me off for a couple of laps then the long road grind home.

Weather was mint. No danger noodles thankfully, one Eastern bearded dragon that was high-tailing it down Boulder in front of me. And the usual abundance of wobblies and skippies.

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Those coaches and scientists you are listening to are talking about Z2 as part of a structured training which probably sets out a 7 days a week program, every week, not a casual 20-30km ride.

If you are only doing 1 ride a week, you will get far more benefit in every way doing a MTB ride on trails with hills than rolling in Z2 on tarmac or gravel.

We ride for fun, so do what makes you happy :)
 
Jabubu said:
For climbing? Sure!

Skill? Yeah definitely.

But for muscle endurance? Base km is where it's at according to the countless coaches and sports scientists that talk about zone two training.

Also I came away from my charity ride with far more than a toughened ass! Sadly I didn't maintain it so my fitness has declined accordingly.
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Every year I did the charity ride I finished thinking how much I was going to enjoy the new found fitness. Which was also accompanied by a complete lack of interest of interest in getting back on the bike again.
 
ozzybmx said:
Those coaches and scientists you are listening to are talking about Z2 as part of a structured training which probably sets out a 7 days a week program, every week, not a casual 20-30km ride.

If you are only doing 1 ride a week, you will get far more benefit in every way doing a MTB ride on trails with hills than rolling in Z2 on tarmac or gravel.

We ride for fun, so do what makes you happy :)
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Wot he said!

You're still doing aerobic endurance work, it's just not structured.

I'm riding way way less than I used to, two or three rides a week every second or third week, and arguably riding better for it.
 
ashes_mtb said:
Every year I did the charity ride I finished thinking how much I was going to enjoy the new found fitness. Which was also accompanied by a complete lack of interest of interest in getting back on the bike again.
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Funny that, maybe it's burn out? Or maybe feeling like you've 'made it'?
 
ozzybmx said:
Those coaches and scientists you are listening to are talking about Z2 as part of a structured training which probably sets out a 7 days a week program, every week, not a casual 20-30km ride.

If you are only doing 1 ride a week, you will get far more benefit in every way doing a MTB ride on trails with hills than rolling in Z2 on tarmac or gravel.

We ride for fun, so do what makes you happy :)
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Oh yeah I agree with you, but I'll aiming for 60km a week so I guess there is some structure there.
 
ozzybmx said:
Those coaches and scientists you are listening to are talking about Z2 as part of a structured training which probably sets out a 7 days a week program, every week, not a casual 20-30km ride.

If you are only doing 1 ride a week, you will get far more benefit in every way doing a MTB ride on trails with hills than rolling in Z2 on tarmac or gravel.

We ride for fun, so do what makes you happy :)
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I ride for fun but being fitter makes it more fun right?
 
More bits from AliX arrived today and yes I confess there's roadie bits there, but hopefully I'll never run out of headset spacers for a while now. The strap wrench seems very grippy and probably capable of damaging an aircan if used to over enthusiastically.
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Also had a better look at the the Hollowtech preload adjusting bolt that didn't seem to tighten up before bottoming out
The Duckmeister said:
That's weird, BB86 is supposedly the same assembled width as a threaded outboard-bearing BB, so no spacers are normally required.
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Following @the Duckmeisters advice I measured the BB shell at 86mm wide and overal size bearing to bearing at 90.7mm. Compared the FC-5600 cranks to the FC-6700 one I had fitted and axle was the same then came to the conclusion the preload bolt thingy seems to be too long as its bottoming out. FC-5600 one didn't fit as the threads are smaller so hunted through the parts box and found another one with M20 thread but only half as long, problem now solved seller of cranks probably gave me the wrong one.
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Also fitted one of the sets of shifter hoods to the ye old ST-5600 shifters, the fit isn't perfect on the very top above where the shift cable exits but for $8 a pair it is hard to complain.
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